Tobacco use among Australian dental hygiene students is declining, but more still needs to be done

While health care professionals have a responsibility to prevent and control the use of tobacco for improved health outcomes, it appears that some dental hygiene students continue to smoke. A survey of Australian dental hygiene students found that up to 16.3% smoke, although this prevalence rate dec...

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Autores principales: Hayes, Melanie J, Smith, Derek R
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4015873/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24148282
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1617-9625-11-22
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description While health care professionals have a responsibility to prevent and control the use of tobacco for improved health outcomes, it appears that some dental hygiene students continue to smoke. A survey of Australian dental hygiene students found that up to 16.3% smoke, although this prevalence rate decreased with each year of study. As future role models, it is essential that smoking cessation counselling is embedded in the dental curriculum to not only discourage their own habits, but so that they may promote the importance of being tobacco free to the wider population.
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spelling pubmed-40158732014-05-10 Tobacco use among Australian dental hygiene students is declining, but more still needs to be done Hayes, Melanie J Smith, Derek R Tob Induc Dis Letter to the Editor While health care professionals have a responsibility to prevent and control the use of tobacco for improved health outcomes, it appears that some dental hygiene students continue to smoke. A survey of Australian dental hygiene students found that up to 16.3% smoke, although this prevalence rate decreased with each year of study. As future role models, it is essential that smoking cessation counselling is embedded in the dental curriculum to not only discourage their own habits, but so that they may promote the importance of being tobacco free to the wider population. BioMed Central 2013-10-23 /pmc/articles/PMC4015873/ /pubmed/24148282 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1617-9625-11-22 Text en Copyright © 2013 Hayes and Smith; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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